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40 Policy • Vol. 30 No. 3 • Spring 2014
SYMPOSIUM
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014
The staff of the Centre for Independent Studies list the best
books they read in the past year.
This House of Grief
by Helen Garner
(Text Publishing, 2014)
Agreat writer can keep
you engrossed in a
story even when you
know how it ends. Helen
Garner is a great writer. This
House of Grief tells the tragic
true story of how and why
Robert Farquharson drove into a dam on Father’s
Day in 2005, killing his three sons. A mixture
of journalism, personal diary, and memoir, it
sensitively details the evidence, the testimonies, and
conversations with people involved in Farquarson’s
trial. But what makes this book original and
compelling is that it is as much about Garner’s
analysis of her own and others’ reactions to a
seemingly incomprehensible act as it is about the
act itself and the circumstances around it. i became
an admirer of Helen Garner’s work—her disarmingly
honest writing style, her sharp observations, and
her preparedness to question
social orthodoxies—when I
read The First Stone in 1995. She
never disappoints.
Jennifer Buckingham
Research Fellow, Social
Foundations Program
The Jihadis Return:
ISIS and the New
Sunni Uprising
by Patrick Cockburn
(OR Books, 2014)
Patrick Cockburn’s
latest
offering
delves into the
origins of islamic State’s
blood-stained rampage
across Syria and iraq in 2014 and the broader
implications of iS’s rise for the Middle
East and the world at large. The Jihadis Return is
often unfairly critical of US foreign policy, and
yet this short book showcases the breadth of
knowledge and incisive analysis that make
Cockburn one of the most reliable guides to the
ever-changing and dauntingly complex mosaic
of Middle Eastern politics. in a journalistic style
akin to frontline war reporting, The Jihadis Return
explains that IS is the unsurprising by-product of
the brutal sectarianism that blights much of
the Muslim world. Actively supported by ultra-
conservative Sunni financiers on the Arabian
Peninsula and tacitly encouraged by the
governments of key Sunni-
majority states, IS is the Sunni
answer
to
the Shia
militancy that iran has long
aided and abetted in Iraq,
Lebanon, and beyond.
Benjamin Herscovitch
Research Fellow, Foreign
Policy Program